9.00 – 9.10 Welcome note Prof. LIU Beicheng (Dean of the Department of History, Tsinghua University)

9.10 – 9.20 Welcome note by Jacques DE SOYRES (EURAXESS Links China)

9.20 – 9.30 Opening speech Manuel PEREZ GARCIA (Department of History, Tsinghua University)

9.30 – 10.30 Panel 1
Between confrontation and support: the perception of European military action in China

Chair: Christine HOWALD (Department of History, Tsinghua University)

1. José Eugenio BORAO (Department of Foreign Languages, Taiwan National University):
Renaissance Fortresses in the Far East: The Case of Taiwan

2. Ines EBEN VON RACKNITZ (Department of History, Nanjing University):
The looting and the burning of the Yuanming yuan: Chinese perceptions of Western diplomacy and military technology during the Second Opium War in 1860.

10.30 – 10.40 Coffee break

10.40 – 12.10 Panel 2
West meets East: European life in China from early modern times until today

Chair: NAKAJIMA Gakusho (Department of Asian History, Kyushu University)

1. Lucio de SOUSA (Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo):
The Jewish Diaspora in China in the 16th century (New Sources and Perspectives)

2. Christine HOWALD (Department of History, Tsinghua University):
Conspicuous consumption: European daily life and consumer behaviour in 19th century China

3. Sara STERLING (Institute of Economics, Tsinghua University):
Globalization and Negotiation—Language, Bargaining and Communication amongst European Education Migrants in Beijing’s Silk Market

12.10 – 12.15 Conference Picture (in front of the library)

12.15 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.30 Panel 3
By land and by sea: entrepreneurship and management in Asia

Chair: LONG Denggao (Institute of Economics, Tsinghua University)

1. YAMAZAKI Takeshi (Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University):
Fishery and Maritime Border in Pre-modern East Asia

2. WANG Shuo (Department of History, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg):
Merchants in late imperial China

3. ZHAO Liang (Institute of Economics, Tsinghua University):
Land Right Transactions, Allocation of Resources and Social Mobility: A case study on the land transactions of Fan family in 19th century Taiwan

15.30 – 15.40 Coffee break

15.40 – 17.10 Panel 4
Socio-economic transfers in Asia and Europe: consumers, goods and traders

Chair: ZHANG Tao (Department of History, Tsinghua University)

1. David LARREINA GARCIA (Institute of Ancient Metallurgy and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing):
The Silk Road before the era of trade: Intercultural Exchange between East and West at the Tarim Basin.

2. LI Zhang (School of Economics and Management, Beihang University):
Analysis of Historical Information on Foreign Trade in Dream of the Red Chamber

3. Manuel PEREZ GARCIA (Department of History, Tsinghua University):
When the ‘Dragon’ Started to Roar: Consumption of Chinese Goods in Europe and the Expansion of Asian Trade (XVIIIth-XIXth Centuries)

17.10 – 17.40 Final discussion

17.40 – 18.00 Outlook on further cooperation and partnership

18.00 Dinner